NIAMH CLANCY
Place of Residence: England
Date of Birth: 1975

Artist's Statement

The prints Gas Mark 4 and Montgomery are part of an ongoing series that derive from newspaper articles. When reading the daily papers, it is the absurd and disturbing short texts that conjure up imagery for me; and I feel the need to record them.

The articles in question did not make the front page nor were they credited with large headlines and therefore may often be ignored or easily forgotten amongst world news. By creating an image to coincide with these stories and making the texts more permanent in the form of etched zinc plates (commemorative plaques almost) they document and highlight the absurdity of life and leaves one with the thought of what will happen tomorrow.

The process used in both these prints is etching. The image is painted onto a steel plate with stop out varnish and etched in a bath of nitric acid. Three plates are used to create each image.

Biography

Niamh Clancy was born in 1975 in Ireland. She earned a B.A. in art history and fine arts from the National College Of Art and Design, Dublin and an M.A. in fine art printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London, England.

In 2000 Clancy held three solo shows: the first at The Original Print Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; the second at The Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland; and the third at The Droichead Arts Center, Drogheda, Ireland.

Since 1998, she has participated in various European group shows including exhibitions at the Galway Art Center, Galway, Ireland; Neo Galleri, Norway; and the Dublin Airport, Ireland. Clancy also exhibited work in 2003 at the 6th Triennale Mondiale D'estampes Petit Format, France and in 2001 at III Festival de Gravura, Portugal.